"Dimitrie O. Paun" dpaun@rogers.com writes:
I don't mean to argue (this is a subjective opinion), but I am curious (knowing that you typically have valid reasoning behind your opinions :)) why you would think troff 'is better'. It's maybe simpler in the sense that it does not require new tools, etc., but better as a markup language?
Clearly the tools are an advantage, but I also think the markup syntax is better. Troff is not really that good, texinfo is better IMO; but with both you have a reasonable chance to read the document in source format, by simply skipping over some markup bits here and there. With SGML the markup is so intrusive that I find it impossible to skip over it and read the text, especially since the markup itself looks like text instead of looking like line noise.